Category: Ethics

  • Charity: Carleton’s student union decides that cistic fibrosis isn’t an “inclusive” enough disease, and so pulls support for Shinorama. Culture: In a stunning victory for freedom and tolerance, an American film festival director is forced to resign because he had the audacity to give money to support California’s proposition 8. Gift giving: Not sure what…

  • Law: The American NAtional Park Police seem to believe a man handing out poppies (what we Canadians know as a symbol of war veterans) is a panhandler. Evil?: GetReligion comments on the story of a young man who killed himself by overdose while many watched over webcam feed. Reading: Tim Challies posts a series of…

  • Happy Election Day Canada!!! Though this cartoon summarizes my view of the election. Law: the real life “grumpies” of france lose in their bid to change the name of a TV sitcom. Legislating: Nebraska continues to find out why they should be careful in crafting laws, as another teenager is abandoned at a hospital there.…

  • Weirdness: the Telegraph reports thatAl-Queda in Iraq claims that women buying “suggestive vegetables” like cucumbers is un-Islamic. Anglicanism: John Stackhouse speaks of the collapse of the world’s largest small group, the Anglican Church Cultural Weirdness: A gust of wind caused an inflatable dog turd to wreak havoc in Switzerland. Compassion?: The Unabomber claims that a…

  • I’m not exactly the most affirming person when it comes to the state of Christianity here in my native Newfoundland.  For some reason, it seems that believers here have either checked their brains at the door of Christianity, or have so radically acclimatized to the more spurious intellectualism that they can no longer be discernible as…